deranger
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- Comment on This one we can all agree on 3 hours ago:
Poop has been used historically as a building material (eg wattle and daub) and is fine for load bearing applications provided you do the math.
- Comment on The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists 5 days ago:
AI can’t make a good hook or a catchy tune
Good luck keeping this out of your head:
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 6 days ago:
The best part about AI is people are shooting themselves in the foot using it at school, where you’re supposed to learn things, and it will make the rest of us not nearly as dependent on a LLM rise to the top. I truly do not understanding cheating in college. If you’re not learning, what’s the fucking point? How well are you going to perform without access to that LLM? Good grades are not the point of college.
- Comment on Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as world’s strongest material 1 week ago:
Cue
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 1 week ago:
They used to.
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 1 week ago:
Citation needed
A cursory search shows rail in rural areas is $2 million per mile and a highway is $4-10 million per mile.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 2 weeks ago:
This is what I’ve been saying for years. You don’t need to listen to someone’s microphone to serve eerily relevant ads. I’ve heard people commonly discussing how they talked about something and saw an ad for it later. You’re already being tracked everywhere and a bit of confirmation bias is all you need to focus in on the times it works. It’s like that story of the prenatal vitamins being recommended to that woman who didn’t realize she’s pregnant.
This isn’t to say that I don’t believe someone can’t possibly turn on the mic in a targeted attack, but few of us are having conversations that are that important. It’s way easier to target you other ways using data that’s much more available.
- Comment on How do I download a blob: video? 2 weeks ago:
Hm, still might be worth a shot. There are ways to grab private posts when you’re logged in by using a browser console and finding the line for the video but I’m kinda too dumb for that. I’d probably just use a screen recorder at that point. I don’t need a Snapchat web-dl.
- Comment on How do I download a blob: video? 2 weeks ago:
You just said web though, right? Not the app. There’s downloaders for everything if you have a link to a public post.
- Comment on How do I download a blob: video? 2 weeks ago:
For social media videos I always just search for <service> video downloader, paste the link to the post and get the video. I do this for Facebook, instagram, and Reddit. I don’t want some plugin I’ll use rarely and the web downloaders seem to work fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There’s nothing stopping anybody
I assume you can do it by hand, right now, in a few seconds then?
- Comment on YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying 4 weeks ago:
I wasn’t the biggest fan, thanks for the recommendations. I’ll give em a shot.
- Comment on YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying 4 weeks ago:
I assume just via the normal desktop site? I tried that back when I very first started with Lemmy but I quickly switched to using the Voyager web app just because I like the app features and especially the post layout. I might have to give the default web interface another shot as I only tried way back when I first switched over.
- Comment on YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying 4 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, how many browse on desktop?
I’ve been using Lemmy since the API exodus and only ever substantially used wefwef/Voyager the whole time.
It would be cool if something like this could also be incorporated into the apps because it sucks when someone puts a link that doesn’t correctly use your instance to see the post they’re sharing, instead opening a browser to display the post.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 4 weeks ago:
Just use it all the time including turn only lanes. Deal with the clicking, it’s fine.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 4 weeks ago:
Dope. Looks like I’ll have to give Linux a shot once again. Worked fine on an old ultra book I had, but every time I tried on my desktop I’d fail at the GPU drivers step.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 4 weeks ago:
What’s installing Nvidia drivers like?
This has killed my install and interest in Linux every time I’ve tried it.
- Comment on Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread? 4 weeks ago:
With enough energy you certainly could, even if that meant breaking everything down to their constituent parts chemically and doing stuff like reconstructing proteins from amino acids.
- Comment on Is there a portable swamp cooler with a window hose like air conditioners have? 4 weeks ago:
That’s a great question.
At first I thought it’d be a wash. The heat absorbed by vaporizing the water in the swamp cooler will be released onto the evaporator coils of the AC, so that’s a net zero energy transfer.
However, air is not good at conducting heat. This water evaporation/condensation cycle might transfer heat from the air to the evaporator coils of the AC better.
You are going to have additional water and electricity costs from running the swamp cooler though, so I really don’t know.
- Comment on Cheers lads 4 weeks ago:
Weed
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 4 weeks ago:
They’re both about price in my opinion.
Personally I don’t feel the console itself is that bad, but $80 Nintendo games, that never go on sale, can fuck right off.
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 4 weeks ago:
Big Xbox One release vibes.
“Fortunately we have a product for people who aren’t able to stay connected; it’s called Xbox 360” - Don Mattrick, Microsoft’s President of Interactive Entertainment Business
- Comment on Is there a portable swamp cooler with a window hose like air conditioners have? 5 weeks ago:
There’s no point as a swamp cooler does not have heat to reject.
Also, swamp coolers are only effective in very dry environments. Unless you’re in the desert it’s going to make it feel warmer by raising humidity significantly. A large part of why AC makes it feel nicer is reducing humidity, which allows sweat to work better.
- Comment on Spotify debuts Gen AI ads, programmatic ad buying 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, might be switching to Jellyfin eventually, but I want to milk my lifetime plex pass for a bit longer. The enshittification hasn’t reached annoying levels for me yet. I’d have to talk all my non-nerd friends through setting Jellyfin up as well, so there’s a significant effort barrier to switching there.
- Comment on Spotify debuts Gen AI ads, programmatic ad buying 5 weeks ago:
Plexamp is fantastic. Sweetfades and radio/mix features, which can also include songs from shared libraries, are dope as hell. One of my favorite audio players of all time. Bridges the gap between old school local library playback and modern algorithm stuff really well.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 5 weeks ago:
If you really want to see this type of content you can easily find it with the tiniest amount of motivation.
- Comment on DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software. 5 weeks ago:
Nowhere in the article does it say anything like that. It’s pretty straight forward reporting - the guy ran some websites and distributed pirated books and software, and hacked a few websites. No judgements are passed, it’s just factual information.
- Comment on Breaking - Trump Resigns! 1 month ago:
Flightradar24 had a notification that the Concorde was flying again, first thing I saw this morning and I completely fell for it.
- Comment on Embracer studio Eidos-Montreal has laid off 75 employees 1 month ago:
I hate
embracereraser group, fuck em for cancelling the Deus Ex game. - Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 month ago:
Not knocking people’s choices, it just wasn’t for me. If math in reality isn’t math in education, it’s even better that I left.
I’ll still contend math is much more elegant than physics or engineering, though. There’s no e^I*pi + 1 = 0 equivalent for either.
